by corneliuscorps | Oct 24, 2024 | 2024, Weekly Reflection
Racial stereotypes and racial bias have real and tragic consequences. Thirty five years ago this week there was an infamous case in Boston that illustrates this painful reality. A white man named Charles Stuart made a 911 call to report that he and his pregnant wife...
by corneliuscorps | Oct 17, 2024 | 2024, Weekly Reflection
The Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 was recently awarded to a Japanese organization called Nihon Hidankyo. This is a group of survivors of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Known by the term Hibakusha, these surviors have witnessed to the world...
by corneliuscorps | Oct 10, 2024 | 2024, Weekly Reflection
Earlier this week marked the one year anniversary of the horrendous October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. The suffering, pain, and death on that day and in the year since are unimaginable for any of us who were not directly impacted. We hear the numbers – over...
by corneliuscorps | Oct 3, 2024 | 2024, Weekly Reflection
Earlier this week, my wife and I voted in this year’s national election. The process of early voting at our polling place in Virginia was quick and easy. The whole process took less than 10 minutes. Yet 61 years ago during the first week of October, it was a...
by corneliuscorps | Sep 25, 2024 | Weekly Reflection
The title of this post comes from Shane Claiborne in a YouTube video about the death penalty posted seven years ago. I refer to it today, because of an execution in Missouri on Tuesday evening. Marcellus Williams died by lethal injection after spending 24 years on...
